Air Conditioning Services (New Zealand) Limited

AIR CONDITIONING SERVICES (NEW ZEALAND) LIMITED

INTRODUCTION:

Air Conditioning Services (NZ) Ltd is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace as required by the Health & Safety at Work Act 2015, and other associated legislative requirements.

Air Conditioning Services (NZ) Ltd undertakes to:

 Provide its workers with access to training that is relevant to fulfilling this commitment, and to encourage all workers to participate in these training programmes;

 Encourage workers to apply their training to their workplaces and to consider the safety and health of others and always seek ways to achieve a safe and healthy workplace; and

 Promptly consider worker’s training requests.

POLICY STATEMENT:

Training of all ACS workers will be on a needs analysis basis, including the requirements of the said Act and its associated regulations, standards, tasks, individual, occupations and non-company facility requirements. Individual needs will be identified through annual performance appraisals.

Induction programmes will be given to all new workers, includes authorized service agents and temporary staff using the buddy system.

ACS will identify the training required so that all workers are aware of hazards in their work area and how to risk assess and control with them.

The training programme will be the responsibility of the Company Director(s) and H&S Co-ordinator.

PROCESSES:

 ACS is responsible to ensure that persons who work for or on behalf of the company attend a safety induction training course on their first day and prior to commencing work of any type.

 A Company Director is responsible as the nominated PCBU officer for ensuring that each staff member under their direct control has been safety inducted and ensure that the worker understands the training by completing a competency assessment. They must sign-off both the “Health & Safety Checklist” and the “Health and Safety Handbook”.

 No person is to work on any ACS machinery, equipment or process until they have been instructed and educated using a Safe Operating Procedure (SOP) (if one is available). All jobs specific to SOP’s must be completed by a new staff member within 1 week of their starting date.

 Copies of all training certificates, licenses etc will be kept on the individual’s personal file.

 A health and safety training electronic database will capture and record all workers training details that includes specific job SOP’s as well as relevant training course needs to fulfill the role and training bring-ups detailed.

All internal trainers will attend a “train-the-trainer” course and their skills, experience and qualifications recorded.

Version# 8 Dated 14 April 2017 Page 1 of 2  Where external training knowledge is necessary, this training will be outsourced to an ACS certified provider.

 All ACS field staff including its Authorised Service Agents must be “Site Safe” and “Yellow Card” accredited dependent upon the clients training needs.

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